Teaching of Rights and Justice in the Law School: Challenges and Opportunities for Research Led Teaching

This book examines the challenges of bringing cutting-edge research in often controversial areas into the law syllabus and explores how academics can effectively adopt a holistic approach to research and pedagogy when teaching rights and justice. The collection brings together experts from all areas of legal scholarship to discuss how they fuse often controversial aspects of rights and justice into their teaching in a way that responds to and is ultimately led by academic research. As such, it advances legal education through the opportunity to explore the interplay between rights and justice and how scholars both ensure that their teaching is research-led, whilst responding to the needs and views of students and issues such as generational differences in viewpoints on controversial issues. This topical volume will appeal to academics and researchers interested in academic freedom, the challenges of research-led teaching and the pedagogy around the teaching of rights and justice.

Stephen Hurley is a Senior Lecturer in Employment and Equality Law at the University of Winchester. He is a solicitor and formerly an Employment Law Partner in private practice. For over a decade he has taught law at undergraduate and postgraduate level at a number of UK universities and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has published in the area of disability harassment and fraud in the workplace.

Chris Monaghan is a Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Worcester. He is the Director of the Constitutions, Rights and Justice Research Group at the University of Worcester. He has published on areas such as accountability, the Chagos Islands litigation, human rights, the UK constitution, and impeachment.